Spelling
Vocabulary
Geography
Palacio's book
Miscellaneous
100

This is how you spell the name of the state in which we live.

What is I L L I N O I S?

100

This word describes a person who watches others getting hurt and does not but stand on the side.

What is a bystander?

100

Name three of the five great lakes.

What is either Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, or Superior.AKA

HOMES

100

What is one of the genres of literature in which White Bird falls?

What is graphic novel or historical fiction?

100

This is the ugly word that describes the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

What is a genocide?

200

This is how you spell the state where Uncle Mike lives. 

What is 

CONNECTICUT

200

This kind of person gets involved when they seeing someone mistreating others and protects them.

What is an upstander?

200

We learned from Kids Edition that Iceland is actually in two continents. Name one of them.

What is Europe or North America?

200

These symbolize new beginnings, peace, fidelity, love, luck and prosperity.

What are white doves or birds?

200

Today's holiday celebrates the death of this certain saint from Ireland.

Who was St. Patrick?

300

How do you spell the state where Isabel goes to college.

What is M A S S A C H U S E T T S?

300

A gait describes the way in which a person does this.

What is walk?

300

This state is sandwiched between Mississippi and Georgia.

What is Alabama?

300

This is the motto for learning about the Holocaust and other genocides that have happened in the world.

What is NEVER AGAIN?

300

In this classic fairy tale the protagonist out-clevers the clever villain. 

The protagonist wants freedom. The Prince wants her. Through their mistakes, the reader can learn about the dangers of forbidden fruit and possessiveness.

What is Rapunzel?

400

How do you spell the name of the Big Ten School that Leslie and Tucci attended. Also, it is the name of the Lake about six blocks east of your house.

What is M I C H I G A N?

400

Xenophobia is the fear of anything that seems like this to another person.

What is foreign, different, or strange?

400

After Hawaii, this state is the farthest south.

What is Florida?

400

Even in the most evil of times, unexpected people perform heroically to ehlp others. Ask the question if this is connected to plot, characterization, setting, or overall theme in story. 

What is theme?

400

What is the elegant word that describes a person who knows how to "walk in another person's shoes" to show deep feeling and understanding. 

What is empathy?

500

Spell the state just to the north of Louisiana. 

What is A R K A N S A S?

500

People who are menaces in society can also be described by one of these words. 

What is danger, threat, fear, or hazard.

500

This is the southeastern state that belongs at the beginning of a famous Grateful Dead song that goes like this __________, ____________, there ain't no place I'd rather be.

What is Tennessee.

500

This is one way how Palacio makes her story very current, applicable, and appealing to middle schoolers today.

What is the use of facetime for storytellling, what is mentioning immigration law, treatment of refugees in today's society, or what is mention of Trump's policy on keeping people out of the United States?

500

This is the long and impossible word to spell that describes a person who starts their own business from scratch with a good idea. You do not need to spell it.

What is an entrepreneur?